A sibling is the best gift that life can ever give you. Having a brother or a sister, or both, means having a friend for life. Siblings are those people that you can always rely on as you share the same memories and embark on the same adventures while you grow up, so the bond between you only grows stronger and stronger over the years.
Presley and Reef Brooks are siblings who are about to meet their youngest sister, baby Charleigh. The little girl was born six weeks prematurely and had to stay at the NICU for a couple of weeks. Neither Presley nor Reef had any idea that Charleigh was home already as their mom and grandma wanted it to be a surprise.
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The siblings’ reaction to meeting the newest addition to their family for the first time is so incredible that the video of the encounter has been seen over 10 million times.
It took place in October of 2018, but it seems that it never grows old because it shows what true love really is.
The kids are aware something is going on as they see the camera rolling, but they probably expect some gifts. However, seeing their sister is way better than any toy out there.
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Reef does get excited, but it is what Presley does that steals the hearts of many. She could be seen running towards her baby sister, but then she suddenly stops and takes a moment to compose herself. That, however, doesn’t last long as she can’t wait to give Charleigh a hug. The moment she takes the little one in her arms is so touching that we have a hard time stopping tears from falling down our faces.
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Honestly, this is something you need to see yourself in order to understand the power of sisterhood. Awesome, indeed!
Jamie and Skyler Scott of St George, Utah, have always dreamed of having a big family. They already had two sons, but wanted more children. However, getting pregnant again was more difficult than they assumed.
After five years of trying, they turned to IVF treatments. After a couple of tries, Jamie’s pregnancy test finally showed two red lines.
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The entire family was over the moon. They couldn’t wait to welcome another bundle of joy. Little did they know, however, that they would get more than what they hoped for.
As the level of HCG hormones was pretty high at Jamie, which is usually a sign of multiple pregnancy, she suspected she was carrying twins so she booked an ultrasound. To her and her husband’s surprise, they heard five heartbeats.
Jamie was advised to consume around 4,000 calories a day. “It’s a little much because it’s already like having a giant pumpkin in my belly. I feel full all the time, but yet I’m hungry and thirsty all the time. I have to eat more small meals throughout the day but packed with high-calories,” she said at the time.
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Since multiple pregnancies are pretty complex, the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where Jamie was kept under the constant supervision of experienced obstetricians, among which Doctor John Elliott who has helped delivered 24 sets of quints and 108 sets of quadruplets. That meant Jamie was in safe hands.
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“I wanted to be a great mother for all these individual human beings, and I was thinking about how we were going to do this. Then, I just had this overwhelming peace come over me, and just this message, ‘Just be love.’ I thought, I can do that,” Jamie said.
“Our goal was 32-and-a-half weeks. Dr. Elliott’s goal was 34 weeks,” this mom told LDS Living. “Given that our little Logan wanted to come at 21 weeks, I am so grateful that our babies stayed put until 29 weeks. I am just amazed at how well they are all doing.”
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Babies Lily, Violet, Daisy, Logan and Lincoln were born on March 21, 2018 at the St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. They were all delivered in under 60 seconds and all of them weighted just under 3 pounds. Luckily, they were all perfectly healthy.
“The messages of love and hope that we’ve received from around the world have really helped strengthen us to get through this tough time of very, very high risk pregnancy,” Jamie said.
The little ones are now nearly four years old and have plenty of followers on social media.
A lot has been said of the unique and sometimes complex bond between twins. The fact that they share a womb together and get to spend time around one another even before they are welcomed into the world makes their relationship special.
“Whether or not your babies come home together or separately, the relationship between them will shape their lives right from the start. They are individuals who are born as members of a team. They will grow up with a strong relationship to the other members of their team,” Twin Magazine writes.
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“Their relationship bond brings with it life-enhancing possibilities which are seldom enjoyed by single-born children. Soon they will begin to light up with joy at the sight of each other. Their daily companionship during early childhood lays the foundation for lifelong comraderie.”
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One proud father named Mike Lasky shared an adorable video of his two babies whom he named Baby A and Baby B watching over one another just an hour after they were born. The little ones turn their heard towards their sibling making sure that they are there and that they are fine.
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Although it only lasts for around 20 seconds, the video captured the attention of over 14 million people. A lot of people were eager to share their own stories about twins they know of and tell how exceptional that bond really is.
Some argued that twins use special language they use to communicate, something known as cryptophasia.
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One thing is certain, the video of Baby A and Baby B will melt your heart. Check it out below.
Most adopted children are curious to learn more about their biological parents. While some succeed in tracking their moms and dads, other spend a lifetime searching, but to no avail.
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A woman from Washington DC named Christina Housel knew she was adopted. She, however, had a great life and didn’t think much of her biological family until she became a mother herself. All of a sudden, she wanted to learn more and her search led her to an astonishing discovery. Housel had a brother.
It didn’t take long before she learned who her brother was; Lyle James Berryman, a young man from Arizona who was also adopted.
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The moment they both saw photos of one another, they knew they were siblings. According to both of them, their physical similarities were striking.
When they finally met and shared details about their lives, Berryman revealed something shocking. As it turned out, he knew his biological mother and was in touch with her. Before her passing, she told him that besides Housel, he also had twin sisters.
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Both Housel and Berryman knew they needed to look for their sisters. Finding them wasn’t going to be easy, but they were determined to stop at nothing.
The first thing that came to their mind was to ask Internet users to help them with their search. They posted a plea on social media holding signs which read: “Just met after 30 years,” and “Still looking for twin girls born in Florida around May or April 1992-94. Their plea went viral with thousands of people re-sharing it online.
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Luckily, the search was a huge success.
Sisters Lauren Rutherford and Ashley Bo had a story on their own. They were both adopted as babies and they had no idea they had older brother and sister. It took this family three decades to reunite, but it was all worth it.
Despite living at different parts of the country, the four siblings got together for a touching reunion. They had the time of their life and tried to make up for the lost time.
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Make sure you watch the video below for more on this beautiful story.
Joyce DeWitt became a huge celebrity after landing the role of Janet Wood in what is now considered a cult TV series, Three’s Company.
At the time she auditioned for the show, she couldn’t possibly imagine how successful it would turn out to be. The story revolved around three roommates living in an apartment complex in Santa Monica, California. Their constant misunderstandings, social lives, and financial struggles brought so much laughter to people from every corner of Earth. Even today, 37 years after it ended, Three’s Company remains popular in syndication and through DVD releases.
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DeWitt starred alongside Suzanne Somers and John Ritter and the three helped made the show what it is today, a true Hollywood classic.
“It was such a gift. I mean, it was iconic. But who would have thought it?” Joyce DeWitt told The Spec. “All we were trying to do was make people laugh. When I think about it, the show was really an attempt to do a contemporary version of a 16th-century farce. It was about silliness running wild. I mean, we were talking about serious issues at times, but that was always somewhere underneath.”
“John Ritter used to say, ‘We don’t want people to just laugh but to fall over their couch laughing,’” she added. “The real issue was always the depth of friendship and the love those characters had for each other. That’s what drew people to them.”
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The show was cancelled in 1984 and DeWitt decided she needed to take a short break. However, things didn’t turn out as expected and she stayed out of the spotlight for over a decade. Being someone who enjoys privacy and a quiet life, she didn’t regret her decision to distance herself from television.
“It was time,” she said. “I was ready for quiet and reflection. I loved being Janet, but she was never my whole reason for getting up in the morning. My identity and self-worth weren’t wrapped up in her, and that show.”
“Of course, there’s a lonely period. I missed the characters as much as the people who played them,” she added. “But I’m basically a hermit. My natural instinct is to go into the cave and ponder, not stand outside and howl. ‘Oh, I have a gregarious side, but there’s the inner Joyce too.’”
It wasn’t until 1995 that she turned to filming again, but no project she has been involved in reached the success of the series which helped her career skyrocket back in the day.
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Suzanne Somers left the show in 1980, four years before it was canceled, because she wasn’t paid as much as her male colleague. She was mad at the producers and the directors and stopped speaking to everyone involved in the show, and that included DeWitt. The two only reunited again after Somers invited DeWitt to be her guest on her talk show in 2012.
“We had very different approaches to our careers,” DeWitt said of the relationship between her and Somers following the show. “We had very different needs. I did not have a child that I was supporting on my own. I didn’t have a business head, so I didn’t understand someone who did.”
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Unlike her relationship with Somers, DeWitt remained very close to Ritter until his passing in 2003.
A month before he died due to an undetected flaw in his heart called an aortic dissection, DeWitt called his hotel where he stayed, which happened to be close to her home. She left him a message and he called her back some seconds later.
“As I’m walking out the door, the phone rings, and I pick it up, and it’s Johnathan,” she said according to Outsider. “And he goes, ‘Baby, we’ve got three parties and a dinner to do tonight. I’ll pick you up at 7!” It was so delicious … and a month later, he passed.”
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For what we know, DeWitt never married and doesn’t have children.
Today, at 72, DeWitt is still very active both on stage and on the screen.
Being a teacher means being a role model and someone students look up to. But what happens when some of the educators find themselves in a situation where they can no longer put up with some students’ misbehaving and fail to cope with the challenges ahead of them? Unfortunately, in cases like this, many teachers opt for punishing the students using drastic and unacceptable measures and methods.
A situation that took place at the Cool Spring Primary School in King Williams, VA, back in 2016 raised the question of what ‘punishments’ are sort of deserved and what it means for teachers to cross the line.
What this teacher did, however, is simply outrageous. In an attempt to teach her students a lesson, she humiliated them and shook their self-esteem by forcing them to stuck their heads in a bucket full of urine.
It turns out that one of the kids peed in the bucket and all the class had to sniff the urine and try to guess who did it.
Shawn Martin, father of one of the students recalls the day his son got back from school. The boy said how he felt miserable because he had a really rough day.
“And I said you’re an 8-year-old in the second grade,” said Martin. “How bad could your day have really been?”
The boy then told his parents what happened, and they were furious at the teacher. Of all the methods she could use to find out who peed in the bucket, she chose one that put the students in an awkward and unpleasant situation.
“She made every male student smell the urine in the bucket,” said Martin.
“Stick their head in the bucket, smell the urine, and give their opinion from the smell of the urine which child urinated in the bucket.”
The school leaders were informed of the incident but commented how it was a personnel matter. They also confirmed that the teacher, who has been teaching for 26 years, is still on the job.
“Appropriate action has been taken to ensure that such conduct does not repeat itself. We will have no further comment.”
The parents of the students affected by the incident required answers and weren’t satisfied with how the school handled the situation.
“I don’t think anything is appropriate. That lady was in there teaching my son today,” said Martin. “I don’t understand how the administration lets her come back and direct those kids.”
Martin filed a formal complaint citing “unprofessional conduct.”
“They want to sweep it under the rug like it never happened,” said Martin. “That is not acceptable.”
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The school offered Martin to transfer his son to another class, but he believes that won’t fix the problem.
We simply can’t believe how an educator who’s been teaching for so long could do such thing, and we believe she should face the consequences of her action.
Most actors have vivid memories of the first time they got to be on stage and perform in front of audience. For many, this experience was exactly what made them fall in love with acting. This was the case with actor Thomas Gibson who grew fond of the stage after doing a Louis Armstrong impersonation at a local pizza restaurant at the age of eight.
“And it’s a source of great embarrassment to me now, but then, it was really great. So I think my mother realized that swimming and the other sports and the other sports I may have been involved with at the time weren’t quite enough,” he said of that ‘faithful’ night at the pizza parlor.
This made Gibson take acting lessons after school. The more he got involved with acting, the more he got to be enchanted with the profession. The local theater, which was run like a professional theater, was just the place for young Gibson. It became the place he felt most comfortable being at.
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After performing with the Footlight Players at the Dock Street Theater, Gibson earned a scholarship at the famous Julliard School in New York. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1985.
The stage was his first great love and it wasn’t until the late 80’s that he turned to TV. In 1989, he appeared in 15 episodes of As the World Turns, and some years later, he landed a role in the film Far and Away.
What followed was his big breakthrough with the iconic role of Greg Montgomery on the television show Dharma & Greg which was a huge success. The series helped Gibson and his co-star Jenna Elfman become household names adored by millions. He received two Golden Globes nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical.
“We hit it off as actors, and as people, and that contributed to the characters,” Gibson told The Canadian Press about the show’s success. “That’s the sort of thing you can’t fake. It was something we never questioned. It was just there and fun. two actors who found each other and enjoy each other.”
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In 2005, Gibson was cast in the series Criminal Minds. He played Aaron Hotchner and experienced enormous success but was fired after 12 years on the show. Apparently, he kicked producer Virgil Williams after they had an argument over a line.
“We were shooting a scene late one night when I went to Virgil [Williams] and told him there was a line that I thought contradicted an earlier line,” Gibson explained. “He said, ‘Sorry, it’s necessary, and I absolutely have to have it.’”
Gibson then left and told the rest of the cast about what had happened when Williams entered the room. “He came into that room and started coming towards me. As he brushed past me, my foot came up and tapped him on the leg,” Gibson explained. “If I hadn’t moved, he would have run into me. We had some choice words, for which I apologized the next day, and that was it. It was over. We shot the scene, I went home – and I never got to go back.”
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The news about him leaving the show after 256 episodes left the fans in shock. Gibson issued a statement thanking his fans and saying he put his “heart and soul into it for the last twelve years.”
At the time he was fired from the show, Gibson was also going through troublesome time in his private life. His wife of more than 20 years, Christine Parker, filed for a divorce in 2014. It was finalized four years later.
As reported by Page Six, the actor wrote in the divorce filling that “the marriage has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities … that destroys the legitimate ends of the marriage relationship and prevents any reasonable expectation of reconciliation.”
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Neither Gibson nor Parker wanted the news of their separation to make headlines because they wanted to spare their three children from pain.
“Being a dad is the greatest experience of my life,” Gibson told People in 2016.
“We spent a year and a half in mediation. We kept it private because divorce is hard enough on kids without having to deal with it publicly. Christine and I switch off staying with our kids at home in San Antonio. We did the best we could and continue to do the best we can as parents.”
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Gibson, who has a net worth $18 millions, was ordered to pay his ex-wife $3,000 a month for child support. He also continued paying for their school tuition and is residing at the family’s home in San Antonio every other weekend when he also has his children.
A man named Steven Hildreth Jr. was pulled over by a Tucson Police officer because of a broken headlight. But as it turned out, the officer had questions. He wanted to know if Steven had any weapons, to which he said yes. He explained that he had a gun but had a permit for carrying one.
Then the officer asked for the man’s licence and registration. As he had them in his right pocket, the officer had to disarm him so that he could reach his wallet.
Steven shared the rest of the story on his Facebook page and it quickly went viral with more than 600,000 shares.
“So, I’m driving to my office to turn in my weekly paperwork. A headlight is out. I see a Tucson Police Department squad vehicle turn around and follow me. I’m already preparing for the stop.
“The lights go on and I pull over. The officer asks me how I’m doing, and then asks if I have any weapons.”
“Yes, sir. I’m a concealed carry permit holder and my weapon is located on my right hip. My wallet is in my back-right pocket.”
“The officer explains for his safety and mine, he needs to disarm me for the stop. I understand, and I unlock the vehicle. I explain that I’m running a 7TS ALS holster but from the angle, the second officer can’t unholster it. Lead officer asks me to step out, and I do so slowly. Officer relieves me of my Glock and compliments the X300U I’m running on it. He also sees my military ID and I tell him I’m with the National Guard.
“Lead officer points out my registration card is out of date but he knows my registration is up to date. He goes back to run my license. I know he’s got me on at least two infractions. I’m thinking of how to pay them.
“Officers return with my Glock in an evidence back, locked and cleared.”
“Because you were cool with us and didn’t give us grief, I’m just going to leave it at a verbal warning. Get that headlight fixed as soon as possible.”
I smile. “Thank you, sir.”
“I’m a black man wearing a hoodie and strapped. According to certain social movements, I shouldn’t be alive right now because the police are allegedly out to kill minorities.
“Maybe…just maybe…that notion is bunk.
Maybe if you treat police officers with respect, they will do the same to you. Police officers are people, too. By far and large, most are good people and they’re not out to get you.
“I’d like to thank those two officers and TPD in general for another professional contact.”
“We talk so much about the bad apples who shouldn’t be wearing a badge. I’d like to spread the word about an example of men who earned their badges and exemplify what that badge stands for.”
